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Anyone should be free to track what they want, but many people, especially in high-income countries, have become data-obsessed. I’m guilty of it myself—first in my notebooks, meticulously tracking habits, then in Notion, where endless dashboards monitored every aspect of my life.

Our apps have caught on, and even our hobbies aren’t safe. All in the name of…

In Today’s Email 👀 

• Build Databases with AI

• Max Selection on Forms

• Shortcuts Full List

• Reminders Tutorial

• Notion to Sankey

• Valentine’s Day

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3 Tips / Updates

1/ Build Databases with AI

OK, let's start with the rockstar update of last week: you can now create real databases by prompting Notion AI.

This is a big improvement from our clunky workaround: if you recall, before we could ask Notion AI to make a simple table then turn it into a database, but all properties were Text so it still took quite some time.

How?

1. Type /table or /database as usual

2. Select Build with AI

3. Prompt what you want

4. Notion will create the database, the properties and the views!

5. Add a few properties of your choice OR summon AI to make changes OR accept if everything is perfect ✨

And that's it! You now have your database, ready to be used!

This is a huge update—it makes building in Notion even easier and quicker. It doesn't seem to support "Relation" properties right now, but I'm sure it's something to be expected in future updates.

PS: I'm not quite sure if everyone has the feature yet, and also not sure if it will be available if you don't have Notion AI activated.

2/ Max Selection on Forms

Good news for Notion forms! You can now limit how many options people can select when answering multi-select, relation, and people questions. This helps keep responses focused and manageable.

3/ Notion Shortcuts Full List

Here's a quick tip: You can find all keyboard shortcuts here ↓

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2 Resources

1/ Reminders Tutorial

Need help with Notion reminders? I've created a short tutorial that shows you how to add, modify, and delete reminders in both databases and pages.

2/ Notion to Sankey

If you're a big fan of Sankey graphs, I have good news for you! I just discovered this website that will transform your Notion database into Sankey diagrams. You can then embed your diagram within your Notion page.

They have a free plan with 3 diagrams max, which seems quite fair.

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